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The National Monuments Service's description

Identified in centre-line testing (E4110) in advance of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy road scheme and set aside for resolution as Ballydawmore 1 (Hardy et al. 2010, 78-9). It is situated on a fairly level landscape. Full excavation (E4255) by C. Hardy recorded a C-shaped spread of broken and burnt stone (dims 4.2m N-S; 1.7m E-W; T 0.15m) centred on a subcircular trough (dims 1.58m x 1.49m; D 0.39m) with a post-hole and four stake-holes in its base. There were three pits (dims 2.08m x 1.44m; D 0.22m: 0.8m x 0.8m; D 0.08m: 0.3m x 0.24m; D 0.11m) within 5-6m of the trough, filled largely with silts and clay. 6m S of the trough was an ENE-WSW furrow, which had beneath it a double line of post-holes (L c. 5m). A sample from the trough produced a C14 date of Cal. BC 2366-2062, and four sherds of Middle Bronze Age pottery were found in the topsoil. The unrelated ditch (WX020-110----) is c. 40m to the SW and the unrelated metalworking site (WX020-112----) is c. 145m to the SSE. (McAuliffe and Ruttle 2012; Hardy 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 November, 2013

References

Hardy, C., Nugent, L., Homan Reid, R; O'Liathain, N; Whitty, Y.; and Coleman, C. 2010 N11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme. Archaeological Consultancy Services, Stage (1)a. E4110. Testing report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished. TVAS (Ireland).

Hardy, C. 2013 Ballydawmore 1. Burnt spread, pits and post-holes. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 219, No. 693. Dublin. Wordwell.

McAuliffe, F. and Ruttle, E. 2012 M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy scheme, Co. Wexford. E4171, Ballydawmore 1. Stage (IV) Final Excavation Report for Wexford County Council. Unpublished report, TVAS (Ireland).